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Overwhelming flood of donations mean Nook items are shipped off-island

The Knick Knack Nook has tallied the donations made in 2014, and in terms of financial funds dispersed, the total exceeds more than $40,000.
Response to opposition to Killarney Meadow Pollinator Garden

Response to opposition to Killarney Meadow Pollinator Garden

1. BAA has the farming/agriculture history wrong: We got our info from a well-respected Bowen history book.

RCMP update: dog-napping and passing the ambulance

Sometime between the afternoon of Sunday January 18 and the following morning an unknown person took an Irish Terrier from the area of Arbutus Lane. The dog was found abandoned and uninjured in a dog crate in Stanley Park.

Bowen businesses take a hit with bankrupcy of Wakefield Construction Inc.

On Friday, January 9th, Bowen Islanders working for Wakefield Construction Inc. were informed that their employer was headed for receivership.

As winter storms sink boats, Friends of Mannion Bay await progress on Bay management plan

Linda Hurlburt says that when she and her husband bought their waterfront property on Mannion Bay in 1990, they were sure they had found the most beautiful spot on Bowen Island.
Be not afraid: strip power from those who commit violent acts

Be not afraid: strip power from those who commit violent acts

On the morning of Thursday, January 8, I held a vigil in Snug Cove in honour of the people killed in the Wednesday attacks in Paris. It was just me on that very cold morning, and my little sign, “not afraid.

Sinking of the HMCS Annapolis on-hold

Last week, the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia announced its plan to sink the decomissioned Canadian naval destroyer, the HMCS Annapolis, off of Gambier Island on January 16.
Islanders petition against proposed pollinator garden in Crippen Park Meadow

Islanders petition against proposed pollinator garden in Crippen Park Meadow

It was 1903, says Marion Moore, when her father James Collins acquired the contract to come to Bowen Island and clear what is now the meadow in Crippen Park so that the cows belonging to Captain Cates would have a place to graze.

A “gigabit” for Bowen to transform the island econom

Council asked to investigate the possibility of creating a community-owned fibre optic network

Dock issue back on council’s agenda

With four dock applications pending at Cape Roger Curtis and others still outstanding on other parts of the Island, the “dock” issue is back on the table of Bowen’s municipal council.